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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature is a best-selling 2002 book by the cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker, in which the author makes a case against tabula rasa models in the social sciences, arguing that human behavior is substantially shaped by evolutionary psychological adaptations.
Roman tabula, or wax tablet, with stylus. Tabula rasa (/ ˈ t æ b j ə l ə ˈ r ɑː s ə,-z ə, ˈ r eɪ-/; Latin for "blank slate") is the idea of individuals being born empty of any built-in mental content, so that all knowledge comes from later perceptions or sensory experiences.
Humans are born as a blank slate. Humans are born with a bundle of emotional, motivational and cognitive adaptations. The brain is a "general-purpose" computer. The brain is a collection of modular, domain-specific processors. Culture/socialization programs behavior.
The list gives little emphasis to the issues of aggression, physical conflict and warfare, which have an extensive literature in ethology. [5] Brown's list does have conflict and its mediation as items. He also makes note of the fact that human males are more prone to violence and aggression than females.
Emotion classification, the means by which one may distinguish or contrast one emotion from another, is a contested issue in emotion research and in affective science. Researchers have approached the classification of emotions from one of two fundamental viewpoints: [citation needed] that emotions are discrete and fundamentally different constructs
Note: according to this table, all emotions are feelings, but some feelings are not emotions. Moods (or sentiments) are not feelings or emotions or sentiments (or moods). Robert Daoust 20:08, 22 August 2007 (UTC) Robert, your contribution here is appreciated. The short answer is this...an emotion has a measurable physiological component.
Jenny Slate got real about the realities of being postpartum and feeling what she called a “purple-dark hole” after giving birth to her daughter Ida. “I cannot tell if it is inside of me, or ...
Moreover, emotions can affect larger social entities such as a group or a team. Emotions are a kind of message and therefore can influence the emotions, attributions and ensuing behaviors of others, potentially evoking a feedback process to the original agent. Agents' feelings evoke feelings in others by two suggested distinct mechanisms: